02 Marine Paintings, Richard Hayley Lever's Fishing Boats at St. Ives, With Footnotes, #324

Richard Hayley Lever (American, 1876-1958)

Fishing Boats at St. Ives

Watercolor and gouache on paper

11 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. (28.5 x 36.7 cm)

Private collection

Sold for $950 USD in April 2023

St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times, it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular seaside resort. St Ives has also become renowned for its number of artists. More on St Ives

Richard Hayley Lever (American, 1876-1958)

Gloucester Fishing Schooners

Watercolor on paper

15 3/8 x 19 3/4 in. (39.0 x 50.0 cm)

Private collection

Sold for $4,500 in May 2022

The Gloucester fishing schooner, 123 feet, 3 inches over all, is one of the few remaining vessels of her type in the USA. They fished the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and Georges Bank outside of Cape Cod and were some of the fastest and ablest fishing vessels in the world. More on The Gloucester fishing schooner

Richard Hayley Lever, (b Adelaide, Australia 1876; d Mount Vernon, New Hampshire 1958) Australian-born American painter. In 1900 Hayley Lever traveled to England to study art, and shortly thereafter studied at the Academie Julian in Paris where Van Gogh was a major influence. Around 1912 Lever moved to America and began gaining wide recognition as an important artist. Lever is known for his marine scenes, and once in America he maintained a studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts to paint coastal life. From 1919 to 1931 Lever taught at the Art Students League New York City; and in 1933 was made full Academician at the National Academy in New York City. In 1935 Lever became the director of the Studio Arts Club in Mount Vernon, New York. During his lifetime he was awarded numerous medals for his artistic achievements including gold and silver from the National Academy. More on Richard Hayley Lever

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01 Marine Painting, Maurice MacGonigal's CURRACHS FISHING - With Footnotes, #348

Maurice MacGonigal, PPRHA HRA HRSA (1900-1979)

CURRACHS FISHING (OFF ACHILL), c. 1936

Oil on panel

h:11.50 w:15in

Private collection

A currach is a type of Irish boat with a wooden frame, over which animal skins or hides were once stretched, though now canvas is more usual. It is sometimes anglicised as "curragh".

The currach has traditionally been both a sea boat and a vessel for inland waters. The River currach was especially well known for its shallow-draft and maneuverability. These currach were common on the rivers of South Wales, and were often referred to as Boyne currach. However, when Ireland declared the netting of salmon and other freshwater fish illegal in 1948, its once common appearance quickly dwindled. More on a currach

Maurice MacGonigal was apprenticed to his uncle Joshua Clarke’s glass studio in his hometown of Dublin at the age of fifteen. Politically active in his youth, he joined the first Na Fianna Éireann in 1917, being interned first in Kilmainhal Gaol and then Ballykinlar Camp, Co. Down. When released from internment in 1921, MacGonigal returned to the Clarke studio before he won a scholarship to the Metropolitan School of Art where he studied painting under Sean Keating, Patrick Touhy and James Sinton Sleator. He subsequently taught at the school for over thirty years (later the National College of Art) and became professor of painting. 

MacGonigal's association with the RHA began in 1924, and he exhibited annually, being elected a full member of in 1933. He succeeded his former tutor Sean Keating as president of the academy in 1962, retaining the position until two years before his death. As well as exhibiting at the RHA he showed regularly at the Dawson and Taylor Galleries, and in 1991 a posthumous retrospective was held at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin.

MacGonigal was known not only for his painting but also his set designs for the Abbey Theatre, book illustrations, posters for the Irish Army and a mural he produced in 1939 for the New York World’s Fair in 1939. His works can be found the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane, Crawford Gallery and Ulster Museum. More on Maurice MacGonigal

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #146

Joseph Mallord William Turner, (WT: London 1775-1851)

Fishing Boats caught in a Storm

Oil on canvas

48x58 cm

Private collections

Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.

Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. More on Joseph Mallord William Turner

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #129

George Willem Opdenhoff, 1807-1873, DUTCH
FISHING BOATS ON SCHEVENINGEN BEACH
Oil on canvas
48 by 68.5cm., 19 by 27in.

Private collection

Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague, Netherlands. The earliest reference to the name Sceveninghe goes back to around 1280.

The village was continuously hit by storms. After this last storm, the villagers decided to build a harbour. Until then, the fishing boats had had a flat bottom, and were pulled up the beach. By around 1870, over 150 of these boats were in use. Once the harbour had been constructed in 1904, more modern ships replaced the flat bottoms. More on Scheveningen

George Willem Opdenhoff was born in Fulda (Germany) in 1807, he died in The Hague in 1873. He was a pupil of the landscape painter A. Schelfhout and J.C. Schotel who painted seascapes. He lived and worked in Breda from 1835 to 1837. After traveling to the French coast in 1837, he settled in Rotterdam between 1837 and 1842. About 1842 he moved to The Hague. He painted seascapes, beach scenes and riverscapes. He exhibited in The Hague between 1835 and 1867 and Rotterdam in 1873. His work is included in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. More on George Willem Opdenhoff 

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #84

Samuel Owen, (1769 - 8 December 1857) 

Unloading the catch

Watercolour

14 x 19cm; 5½ x 7½in
Private collection

Samuel Owen (1769 - 8 December 1857) was an English marine painter and illustrator. Nothing is recorded of him before 1791, when he exhibited "A Sea View" at the Royal Academy. This was followed in 1797, after the victory of Cape St. Vincent, by "A View of the British and Spanish Fleets", and, in 1799, by three drawings. These, with three other drawings exhibited in 1802 and 1807, complete the number of his exhibits at the Royal Academy.
 

In 1808 he joined the "Associated Artists in Water-Colours", and sent eleven drawings of shipping and marine subjects to the first exhibition of that short-lived body. He also exhibited twelve works in 1809, and six in 1810, but after that date resigned his membership. His works were carefully drawn and freshly coloured, with great attention to the details of shipping.
 

Owen died at Sunbury in Surrey, on the 8th December 1867, in his 89th year, but had long before ceased to practise his art. More on Samuel Owen

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